Well I'm just in from Vanilla Extract, and I'm almost half-curioius to see Abre Los Ojos cause this thing is a mess, honey!
The audiences that flocked to see Eyes Wide Shut -- NOT! -- are going to stay away in droves when the word gets out on this thing.
Running the gamut of emotions from A to B Cruise plays a magazine magnate who seems to be the straight Jann Wenner. His best pal is the ever-frisky Jason Lee, and his sort-of-girl is the ever friskier Cameron Diaz. The only trouble is she's insane! Whe he meets Penelope Cruz at a birthday party he's thrown for himself (to which Cameron wasn't invited) she flips -- nearly killing him in a car accident that takes her life and destroys his face -- just like Monty Clift.
But is she really dead? He keeps getting flashes of her. And then he thinks that Penelope may acually BE her. Or something.
Then he finds out through Noah Taylor (remember him from Shine ?) that he's actually in an alternate reality. A company run by Tilda Swinton (who shot the whole scene in a day) has had him cryogenically frozen. Years have passed and Penny has pennies on her eyes. But they plan to come back in their next life as cats.
No, I am not making this up.
It's Tom's Seconds folks.
Oh wait -- there's more. The gay stuff.
When Noah Taylor first approaches him in a bar Tom says. "Look, I happen to be straight."
However the man chosen to represent his father -- seen in some enomously projected still images -- is Robert Rauschenberg--who as we all know, is Gay.
So what is Tom REALLY saying here class?
